The Write NewsTM, which provides
news, features and resources for media and publishing professionals,
has announced the launch of its new feature,
The Editorial
Dead ZoneTM. The
Editorial Dead ZoneTM
reports on website layoffs, closings, moves and reorganizations
in the publishing, media and bookselling communities.

The new section of The Write NewsTM also maintains
an archive of "Passings" and a list of dead
companies and publications ("The Dead List"). The
site also provides a section featuring companies and
publications that manage to revive their content,
called "The UnDead". The Editorial Dead ZoneTM
allows website visitors to report about potential
or actual "Passings" by email at
deadzone@writenews.com.

Greg Knollenberg, editor of The Write NewsTM said,
"We launched The Editorial Dead ZoneTM at the request
of our readers, who include editors, publishers, writers and other
content professionals. Our readers needed a way to
keep up with the numerous layoffs, closings and bankruptcies
which are occurring at content-related websites and print
publications. Hopefully, the rapid pace at which publications
and companies are dying will decrease in the future. But even
during more prosperous economic times, cancelled publications
and corporate reorganizations are a part of the publishing business.
We believe this new section will help keep our readers up to speed
about these important events."

The Write NewsTM is a service of Writers Write, Inc.,
a new media company which publishes Writers
Write®, the Internet's largest
and leading writing resource.
The company's flagship website, Writerswrite.com,
receives over 2.6 million hits and 850,000 pageviews
each month. Writerswrite.com provides job listings,
markets, discussion, links and an award winning
online magazine,The
Internet Writing Journal®, which
contains author interviews, articles and book reviews in
all genres. Writers Write, Inc. also owns Howtoweb.com,
Driversdrive.com and Readersread.com.